Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Accidentally Helps Bitcoin, Analysts Say 🤑

The budget proposal, which sailed through in the late hours of July 3, almost entirely along partisan lines, with only two Republicans daring to vote against it, significantly boosts the US government’s borrowing power. This has, unsurprisingly, earned it a fair share of criticism from Democrats and even some of Trump’s own allies, like the ever-vocal Elon Musk. 🚀

Crypto Crooks Strike Again: $2.4 Billion Lifted in 2025 and Nobody’s Grandma Is Safe

This jolly news comes courtesy of SlowMist’s mid-year “Blockchain Security and AML Report.” The score: $2.37 billion spirited away in just 121 incidents in H1 2025. The kicker? That’s nearly 66% more cash lost than at this time in 2024, although—miracle of miracles—the number of incidents actually went down. It’s like fewer bank robbers, but each one left riding a gilded carriage.

Bitcoin Frenzy: Did Jittery Traders Just Outrun the Fed? 😏💸

Over at Binance, if you listened close, you could hear a thundering—a hundred million bucks in net taker volume, not from the timid but the hungry, the bold, each one outbidding a neighbor for a little slice of hope before the government flashed its numbers. Classic human nature: just before the dawn, someone’s always buying candles.